Rubin-PresserPublicInterestScholarsFOR THE LASTDECADE, THISPUBLIC INTERESTSCHOLARSHIPPROGRAM HAS DRAWNACCOMPLISHEDSTUDENTS TOTEMPLE LAW TEMPLEUNIVERSITYJAMES E. BEASLEYSCHOOL OF LAWLAW SCHOOL ANDALUMNI NEWSNOVEMBER 2010Dear graduates and friends: This issue of Temple ESQis an inspiration to me and to TempleLaw students, faculty and staff. The number of graduates whomake the choice to give back to the school is a wonderfulreflection on the value of a Temple Law education. We have themost remarkable graduates who come from every walk of lifeand work in the most interesting places. The enthusiasm ourgraduates share about their careers and their Temple Laweducation encourages our current students to tenaciously attacktoday’s job market.As the cover story details, our Rubin-Presser Public InterestScholars Program continues to attract talented students with astrong commitment to service. In addition, the students plan anannual forum on a current topic. Last year they invitedPhiladelphia District Attorney Seth Williams to participate in adiscussion on incarceration and this year they focused on sex-trafficking in the U.S. at a forum held in early November.Last year our faculty approved some innovative curricularinnovations to increase the hands-on learning environment. As aresult, we have appointed our first practice professor, EdwardEllers, who is profiled in this issue. Professor Ellers is one of ourown, having graduated from Temple Law School in 1975. Hehas had a remarkable career that led to a specialty in gaminglaw, which is of great interest to our current students. Being aphilanthropist, Professor Ellers will donate his compensation tothe law school, for which we are enormously grateful.Finally, special thanks to Judge Dolores Sloviter, Tony Clark andLen Barrack, all of whom have targeted funding for currentstudents and recent graduates transitioning into the challenginglegal job market. Our students have shown themselves to beinnovative and resilient in their pursuit of entry-level positions.The help that we have been able to provide by way of specializedpractice training is owed to the generosity of our graduates.Sincerely,Dean JoAnne A. EppsA MESSAGE FROM DEAN EPPS Scholarships and Temple’s public interesttradition attract outstanding student leaderswith a dedication to service. In fall 2000, a quartet of students who entered lawschool with extraordinary backgrounds in andcommitment to public interest work were selected asthe first Rubin Public Interest Scholars. The programenabled the foursome to attend law school tuition-free the first year, and at half tuition for the secondand third years. The program was named the Rubin PublicInterest Scholars Program in honor of an unrestricted$10 million gift from Leonard Rubin ’49. It was re-named in 2006 as a tribute to former adjunctprofessor and ACLU attorney Stefan Presser, one ofthe program’s creators. The program has also beensupplemented in honor of Henry J. Maxmin ’37.Now a decade old, students who are awarded thisprestigious scholarship continue to enter law schoolwith impressively broad and diverse backgrounds.The scholars are chosen through a competitiveselection process with 50 or more applicants vyingfor the award each year. Graduates of the programare working in practice settings as varied as localcommunity based non-profits to large federalagencies in Washington, DC. Former scholarsadvocate for low-income tenants, develop nationalpolicy on health care issues, and defend the indigentin criminal cases. “Temple has a commitment to training publicinterest lawyers as well as an institutional ethos thatthe power of the law comes with a responsibility to dojustice,” says Professor Susan L. DeJarnatt, facultyadviser to the Rubin-Presser Scholars. “The LawSchool has nurtured this commitment, makingTemple a formidable presence in public interest law.We have created an environment at the law schoolthat encourages and enables students and faculty tobecome involved in public interest endeavors.“Dean JoAnne A. Epps makes support of careersin the public interest a top priority. “I would likefuture lawyers to have the freedom to choose theircareer based on their interests and passions, notsalary,” she says. “Law schools should provide goodvalue to their students by providing a top quality legaleducation while keeping tuition costs reasonable.One way to accomplish this is to provide targetedscholarships for students interested in a publicinterest career, such as the Rubin-Presser PublicInterest Scholars Program.” The Rubin-Presser Public Interest ScholarsProgram is one of several initiatives that supportstudents planning to pursue public interest careersthat are personally rewarding but financiallychallenging. Others include the Barrack PublicInterest Fellowships, through which graduatesreceive loan repayment assistance, and the newJudge Sloviter Fellows Program for summer publicinterest job placements. Temple Law also providessignificant financial support to students who wish towork in public interest during the summer throughthe provision of matching funds for work-studygrants. Finally, Temple has an Office of PublicInterest Programs, directed by Maureen Olives, toprovide targeted staff support to these essentialprograms.Bolstered by these initiatives, Temple leads theregion in public interest placement by placing moregraduates in public interest jobs than any other lawschool in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Temple alsotypically exceeds the national average for publicinterest placement each year. Numerous studentshave begun their legal careers in prestigious publicinterest fellowships funded by the IndependenceFoundation, Equal Justice Works, the BorchardFoundation, the Berkeley Law Foundation, and theSkadden Fellowship Foundation. “Our Public Interest Scholars’ contributions to thespirit and culture of the law school are invaluable,”says Olives. “They are role models to the law schoolcommunity through their leadership in studentorganizations, academic excellence, andcommitment to public interest work.”rubin-presser scholars Celebrating a decade of successMaria del PilarCastillo ’11 is one of eightRubin-PresserPublic InterestScholars. Meetthem all on pagestwo and three.Julia M. Melle ’13A recent graduate ofGeorgetown University with aB.A. in history, Melle is in herfirst year at Temple Law. She isactive in the Student PublicInterest Network (SPIN), theNational Lawyers Guild, andthe Innocence Project. She isalso a member of TempleAlternative Spring Break,through which studentsparticipate in volunteer-basedactivities over spring break. Prior Public Interest Experience•Greenville RenaissanceScholars, GreenvilleMississippi, ExecutiveDirector•Teach For America, Specialeducation teacher/learningteam leader•Office of Kwame Brown,Councilmember At-Large,Washington, DC,Communications intern•Labor Policy Office ofSenator Ted Kennedy, SenateHELP Committee,Washington, DC, Intern •New Leaders for NewSchools, SummerFoundations, Philadelphia,PA, Intern•Group for the Study andTeaching of PopulationIssues, Dakar, Senegal,InternKara F. Morse ’12Morse, a magna cum laudegraduate ofWillamette University, is a staff memberfor the Temple Law Review. She ischair of the Student Public InterestNetwork (SPIN) and Treasurer of theHealth Law Society. She is also active inthe Women’s Law Caucus and LawStudents for Reproductive Justice.Since last May, Morse has beenworking as a legal intern with the TheNational Nursing Centers Consortium and The Convenient CareAssociation, focusing on health care policy.Prior Public Interest Experience•The Raben Group, Washington, DC, Associate •Population Institute, Washington, DC,Public policy fellow•Académie de Strasbourg, Colmar, France, English languageinstructor•Office of State Senator Ryan Deckert, Salem, OR,Legislativeassistant •Humanitarian Accountability Project,Geneva, Switzerland,Intern 2• TEMPLE ESQ. NOVEMBER 2010Jared Bass ’12Now in his second year of lawschool, Bass is an officer in the Student Public InterestNetwork (SPIN), a member ofthe Black Law StudentsAssociation, and a member ofTemple’s National Trial Team.Bass currently serves as aresearch assistant for Professor David Sonenshein.He is a cum laudegraduate of Eastern University andobtained a Master’s degreefrom the University ofDelaware’s School of UrbanAffairs and Public Policy. Prior Public Interest Experience•Office of CongressmanChaka Fattah, Washington,DC, Legislative intern•Breakthrough Collaborative,Saint Joseph’s University,Instructor on politicalparticipation•Campaign for Youth Justice,Washington, DC, Policyfellow•Delaware House MinorityCaucus, Legislative fellowJustine Elliot ’11Elliot obtained a degree in PoliticalScience and International Studies fromWashington University in St. Louis. Sheis the articles and symposium editor ofthe Temple University Political and CivilRights Law Review,and wrote a paperwhich won the Philadelphia BarAssociation’s 2010 Ruth BaderGinsburg Award. Last year, Elliot co-chaired SPIN’s annual forumcommittee and chaired the National Lawyers Guild’s women’s rightscommittee. She is an active member of Temple OutLaw andWomen’s Law Caucus. Elliot was selected to receive a PeggyBrowning Fund Fellowship in summer 2010.Elliot has been interning at the Nationalities Service Center since2009, when sheparticipated in their asylum clinic. She completeda summer internship at Community Legal Services in theemployment unit, as well as an internship at the Department ofJustice’s Executive Office of Immigration Review in York, PA.Prior Public Interest Experience•Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia, PA, HIV case manager•CARE International, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, HIV/AIDS projectcoordinator/sexual harassment policy writer•Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR), Philadelphia, PA,Sexual assault counselor•Survivors and Advocates for Empowerment, Washington, DC,Domestic violence on-call advocateMeet the rubin-presserScholarsTEMPLE ESQ. NOVEMBER 2010 • 3Jessica F. Jones ’11Jones’ law school volunteeractivities include working withTemple-LEAP, the Committee ofSeventy, and the StudentPublic Interest Network (SPIN).She has interned at theNationalities Services Center,and completed internships atthe Detention and AsylumProject of the Women’sRefugee Commission, JuvenileLaw Center and CommunityLegal Services.This year, a book chapter byJones will be published, “ABA’sCollateral Consequences ofJuvenile Adjudications.” Shealso contributed to the JuvenileLaw Center’s 2010 publicationLessons from Luzerne County:Promoting Fairness, Trans-parency and Accountability.Additionally, Jones co-wrote theWomen’s Refugee Commissionreport on the adverse impact ofimmigration enforcement policyon parental rights and familyunity. Jones is a fluent Frenchspeaker, and holds a B.A. inFrench Studies and Historyfrom Smith College.Prior Public Interest Experience • Legal Aid Society, JuvenileRights Project, New York,NY, Paralegal andeducational advocate• Child Fund International,New York, NY, Projectfellow/program associate forUN office• Legal Aid Society, JuvenileRights Practice, New York,NY, Paralegal and casemanager• Peace Corps, Morocco,VolunteerAndrew C. Thomas ’13Thomas completed his undergraduatestudies at the University of Michigan,receiving a B.A. in Political Science andAnthropology. Currently in his first year,Thomas is a fluent Spanish speaker, andis active in the Immigration Project ofthe National Lawyers Guild.Prior Public Interest Experience•Human Rights First, New York, NY,Program associate and legal assistant, refugee protectionprogram•The Law Offices of Masliah & Soloway, PC, New York, NY, Legalassistant and translatorToni Holness ’11Holness is a graduate of the Universityof Pennsylvania where she earned aB.A. in Health and Societies/International Health. While in lawschool, Holness interned at thePhiladelphia firm of Kairys, Rudovsky,Messing & Feinberg, and clerked forU.S. District Court Judge NormaShapiro. As a member of the JessupInternational Moot Court Team, sheranked among the top five oralists in the mid-atlantic region.Holness assists Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales in her research oninternational human rights law, and works as a legal intern for theInter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, DC.Last year, shetraveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to work with theDocumentation Center of Cambodia.Holness will leave law school a published author. “Reparations andHealing,” a chapter she co-authored with Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales, will be published in Cambodia’s Invisible Scars: TraumaPsychology in the Wake of the Khmer Rouge. In addition, Holnesshas published “Ordinary People and Extraordinary Crimes,” inSearching for the Truth, and “Immigration Movement Should Learnfrom Civil Rights Movement,” written for New American Media. Prior Public Interest Experience•Congressional Hunger Center, Washington, DC, Bill EmersonNational Hunger Fellow•Medical Legal Partnership for Children, Boston Medical Center,Field placement•Center for Community Change, Fair Immigration ReformMovement, Washington, DC, Policy placement Maria del PilarCastillo ’11Now in her final year of lawschool, Castillo is the seniorassociate editor of the TempleInternational and ComparativeLaw Journaland will publish an article in that same journal,titled “Family Separation: AnArgument for Moving AwayFrom Enforcement-OnlySolutions to our Immigration‘Problem.’ ” A native Spanishspeaker, Castillo served as vice-president of the LatinAmerican Law StudentsAssociation, volunteers at theInnocence Project, and belongsto the National Lawyers Guild.Castillo completed herundergraduate studies atMcGill University with a degreein Political Science. During a summer internship at the Civil Rights Bureau ofthe Attorney General’s Office,Castillo helped investigatealleged patterns of unlawfuldiscrimination. In summer2009, she was selected toparticipate in the AFL-CIO’sLaw Student Union Summer.Prior Public Interest Experience•New York State Departmentof Labor, New York, NYLabor standards investigator•Catholic Migration Office,Queens, NY, Paralegal andcommunity organizerDEAN EPPS TO SERVEON COMMITTEE OF SEVENTYJULY 2010 Dean JoAnne A. Epps has been elected to the board of the Committeeof Seventy, a 106-year-old nonpartisanorganization which oversees a range of programs to promote clean and effective government, fair elections and a better informed citizenry in thePhiladelphia region. The Committee of Seventy—which callsitself “fiercely nonpartisan” and neverendorses candidates—operates as both athink tank and a “watchdog” organization.Some of the committee’s recent activitiesinclude promoting legislation to overhaul campaign finance laws and overseelobbyists; fighting for efficiency in city government spending; and pushing the city todrop “DROP,” the Deferred Retirement Option Plan.Upon election to the board, Epps joins a group of approximately seventy of thearea’s top civic leaders, headed by President and CEO Zach Stahlberg and BoardChair Daniel K. Fitzpatrick. 4• TEMPLE ESQ. NOVEMBER 2010LAW SCHOOL NAMES FIRST PRACTICE PROFCorporate and gaming law expert Edward Ellers ’75 joins full-time faculty.Professor Edward Ellers is the first attorney ever to be appointed to the faculty as a Practice Professor of Law. Ellers, who joined the full-time faculty in August 2010, first beganteaching at Temple in 1996. He has taughtcourses in corporations, corporate finance,corporate transactions, unincorporated businessassociations, securities regulation and gaming law. Prior to coming Temple, Ellers had asuccessful career both as a lawyer and business-man. He began practice as a trial lawyer with theEnforcement Division of the U.S. Securities andExchange Commission. He then became afounding partner in the Philadelphia-based lawfirm of Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg andEllers, where he chaired the corporate department and specialized in banking, corporate and securities law. Ellers left the firm in 1991 to become chief operating officer of a publicly traded gaming companywhich opened the first legalized riverboat casinos on the Mississippi River. Ellers earned a B.A. from Tufts University in 1970 and a J.D. from Temple in 1975.“TOO MANY PHILADELPHIAFACULTY NEWSCOURT CASES COLLAPSE”David Sonenshein chairs panel toreform criminal justice system.SEPTEMBER 24, 2010Professor DavidSonenshein was unanimously elected to chair astate-ordered committee charged with makingrecommendations to reform Philadelphia’stroubled criminal justice system. The panel was created in Harrisburg at theurging of State Sen. Stewart J. Greenleaf,chairman of the chamber’s Judiciary Committee.Greenleaf was responding to a 2009 PhiladelphiaInquirerseries that documented a court systemtroubled by low conviction rates, widespreadwitness intimidation and high rates of fugitives. In an article titled “Too many Phila. CourtCases Collapse,” the newspaper reported thatPhiladelphia has one of the lowest felonyconviction rates among big cities and that almosttwo thirds of all defendants charged with violentcrimes in Philadelphia were escaping convictionon all charges.Sonenshein faces the challenge of findingconsensus among the diverse members of theAdvisory Committee on the Criminal JusticeSystem in Philadelphia, which draws from themany groups that participate in the system.Sonenshein is joined on the panel by DistrictAttorney Seth Williams and Ellen T. Greenlee, head of the Defender Association and JohnGoldkamp, Chair of the Department of Justice atTemple University. Other members include asecond law professor, five judges, two prosecutors,seven criminal defense lawyers, and a policeofficer who is also a member of the PoliceBenevolent Association. Sonenshein’s group will issue its findings andrecommendation in December 2011.NEW ASSOCIATE DEAN FORACADEMIC AFFAIRS NAMEDDuncan Hollis fills position left open by Dean Epps.On September 1, 2010, Dean Joanne A. Eppsannounced that Associate Professor Duncan B. Hollishas been selected to be the new Associate Dean forAcademic Affairs. Hollis fills the associate deanship leftvacant by Epps when she accepted the position ofdean of the law school in 2008.Hollis, who joined the faculty in 2004, teachescourses in the areas of public international law, treaties,international environmental law, and property. Hisscholarship focuses on two areas: international legalrules for cyberthreats and international agreements.Hollis uses treaties as the focal point for much of thisresearch, examining the status of treaties, and treaty-makers, from international, comparative andconstitutional perspectives. Hollis earned a J.D., summa cum laude,fromBoston College Law School in 1996; the same year hewas awarded a M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School ofLaw and Diplomacy at Tufts University. From 1998-2004 he served as an attorney-adviser in the Office ofthe Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. TEMPLE ESQ. NOVEMBER 2010 • 5TEMPLE CO-SPONSORS CONFERENCE ON WOMEN AND INT’L CRIMINAL LAWEvent honors Patricia Wald.OCTOBER 29, 2010More than twenty professors and international legal expertsgathered at the American Society of International Law’s Tillar House inWashington, DC for a day to explore issues concerning women andinternational criminal law. This scholarly conference was organized in honor ofThe Honorable Patricia M. Wald, who was also the keynote speaker. Wald is aformer judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,and a former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District ofColumbia Circuit. Her work inspired tribute contributions from both U.S.Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Harvard University LawSchool Dean Martha Minow.Temple Law professor and international law scholar Jaya Ramji-Nogalesorganized the event, along with two other international law professors from theSanta Clara and UC Davis schools of law. Ramji-Nogales and Temple LawProfessor Margaret deGuzman both presented papers at the event. Ramji-Nogales’s presentation was titled “Questioning Hierarchies of Harm: Women,Forced Migration and International Criminal Law.” DeGuzman spoke on“Prioritizing Gender Crimes at International Criminal Courts: The PhilosophicalFoundations of a Feminist Agenda.” Other topics ranged from “Criminal Justice for Gendered Violence andBeyond,” to “The Public Health Implications on Women of Armed Conflict andTransitional Justice,” and “Cecelia Goetz, Woman at Nuremberg.” Theseventeen papers presented at the conference will be published, along with sixother papers, in a special edition of the International Criminal Law Review co-edited by Prof. Ramji-Nogales. Joining Temple Law as conference sponsors were the American Society ofInternational Law; California International Law Center at King Hall, University ofCalifornia, Davis, School of Law; Santa Clara University School of Law; andIntLawGrrlsblog.FROM LEFT:RAMJI-NOGALES,WALD, DEGUZMANFACULTY NEWS6• TEMPLE ESQ. NOVEMBER 2010Judge Sloviter—a noted jurist and a pioneerin breaking gender barriers in the legalworld—sits on the United States Court ofAppeals for the Third Circuit. She taught atTemple from 1972 to 1979, when she wasappointed to the court. She has continuedas an adjunct professor since 1980 in theFederal Clerkship Clinical Program. She wasawarded an honorary doctor of humaneletters from Temple University in 1986 andhas been awarded three other honorarydegrees from other universities.Sloviter says that her regular contact withTemple law students has made her acutelyaware of the difficulties they face in findingsuitable positions in the summer because ofthe retrenchment by area law firms. “Many firms have severely curtailed theiremployment of student interns, leavingstudents with little opportunity to get theneeded experience offered by suchinternships,” she says. Sloviter commendsthose law firms who undertook to makepayments to the graduates they had hiredand who were able to secure public interestjobs for a period of time, and says theyinspired her to create the summerfellowships for Temple Law students.Third Circuit judgeestablishes fellowshipA product of the Philadelphia publicschools, Sloviter grew up in the StrawberryMansion neighborhood of Philadelphia,graduated from Girls High, and attendedTemple University as an undergraduate.She was an active student leader, city editorof the Temple News,and a member ofMagnet, the then-honor society for tenfemale students. She says she ignored what would havebeen the obvious path for a “nice Jewishgirl” of her generation—to become ateacher—and studied economics. Shegraduated magna cum laude,but by thenshe was consumed with the desire to go tolaw school. She knew no lawyers, butdropped her extra-curricular activities toadvertise for a part-time secretarial positionin a law firm so she could see if it would beworth the financial sacrifice law schoolwould entail. Convinced that it was, shetook the then-unconventional path for awoman by applying to law schools.At her interview at Penn Law School, herinterviewer—a man who would later be oneof her professors—asked her, “Why shouldwe accept you? You’ll take up a seat thatcould be occupied by a man, and you’ll justget married and make no contribution to theprofession.” She persisted with thatapplication and Penn came through with ahalf scholarship for the first year. Slovitercontinued to work every afternoon at hersecretarial job until she made law review,and Penn rewarded her with a fullscholarship for the second and third years.She remembers there were eight womenin a class that ultimately graduated over130. There were no women on the full-timefaculty and Sloviter said she had no rolemodels. The professors picked on thewomen in class, but she said that “I gave itback as good as I got, and that was soonthe end of that.”Sloviter was unprepared for the difficultyshe encountered when she soughtemployment, in Philadelphia as well as inNew York and Washington. At that time,more than half of the large firms inPhiladelphia did not hire Jewish attorneys,and were aghast at the notion of hiring awoman. Ultimately she found work at thePhiladelphia firm that was then DilworthPaxson Kalish & Green, the only femaleattorney at the firm that already had hiredan African-American attorney.Sloviter remained at Dilworth Paxson,becoming a partner, and left for a short timeto join senior partner Harold Kohn whoformed his own small firm. In 1972 she leftthe practice of law and joined the faculty atTemple Law where her law schoolclassmate, Peter J. Liacouras, was thedean. For the next seven years, Slovitertaught civil procedure, antitrust law, and lawand the elderly, a course she developed.In 1979, she again broke gender barrierswhen president Jimmy Carter appointed herto be the first woman to serve on the Courtof Appeals for the Third Circuit. Sloviterserved as Chief Judge from 1991 to 1998,the only woman ever to have done so onthat court. Although she has been eligible totake senior status for some time, she hasopted not to do so, preferring instead toremain on active status, with a full caseloadand full voting rights. “The Constitutionprovides that inferior federal judges serve ongood behavior, and I’ve tried to be verygood,” says Sloviter. She is the secondlongest serving Court of Appeals judge onactive service in the country.Today, Sloviter says she is pleased tohave found a way to encourage and supportstudents entering public interest careers. “Iam grateful to Temple University Law Schoolfor giving me the opportunity to interact withits wonderful law students on a regularbasis. This is my small way of giving back.”JUDGE SLOVITER HAS TAUGHT A FEDERAL COURTS CLINICAL SINCE 1980.Temple University Law School has announced a gift of$140,000 from Judge Dolores K. Sloviter to supportsummer internships for students seeking publicinterest fellowships. The judge is hopeful that the project will continue for at least five summers. for the nationalservice programVISTA. Accordingto Clark, he “did not have two nickels to rub together” at the time. After receiving a substantialscholarship fromTemple that made law schoolfinancially feasiblefor him, Clarkbegan an intel-lectual journey intolegal thought thatcaptivated him. In fact, he jokes,“The only wayTemple got rid ofme after graduationwas to change the locks.” Still hungry to return to campus,Clark remains connected with the lawschool as a member of its board of visitors,a group of alumni that serve in an advisorycapacity to the dean and the administration.Clark realizes that Temple not onlygranted him a law degree, but also set himon the path that led directly to his currentcareer. After his second year at Temple,Clark was approached by then-Dean PeterLiacouras who recommended that heinterview with a Temple alumnus inDelaware state court. The interview resultedin a clerkship with the Delaware SuperiorCourt for Judge Joseph Longobardi ’57 andJudge Robert O’Hara. From this position,Clark ultimately landed a clerkship with theDelaware Supreme Court, one of theprincipal corporate appellate courts in theworld, with Justice John McNeilly. The joboffer at Skadden followed. In 1988, Clark became the first TempleLaw graduate to be named a partner atSkadden Arps. A number of others havefollowed, a trend that Clark believes willcontinue because of the quality of Templegraduates. He largely credits thecurriculum with this on-the-job success.“I can never fullyrepay Temple LawSchool for all it hasgiven me, but Ihave to try,”explains Anthony W.Clark ’79 inreference to his$500,000 pledge tothe Law School.Clark is a partner inthe Wilmington,Delaware office ofSkadden, Arps,Slate, Meagher &Flom, where heheads the corporaterestructuring andbankruptcy litigationdepartment. Hejoined the firmalmost thirty yearsago “on the cusp ofthe change in thelegal market, where lateral jumps becamethe norm and people traded firms likeprofessional baseball players changeteams.” Instead, Clark, who describeshimself as “a bit of a dinosaur,” opted forthe traditional route of joining a firm,becoming a partner in that firm and livingout his legal career there. During his yearsat Skadden, Clark has represented clientsin industries ranging fromtelecommunications to manufacturing topharmaceuticals to entertainment.Recently, he even represented the NationalHockey League in the case that kept thePhoenix Coyotes in Arizona. Handling thiscase was a boon for a sports fan like Clark,despite having to spend much of thesummer in Arizona’s blistering heat.Clark credits Temple Law School withpreparing him for this successful legalcareer, which in part explains his generosityto the school. However, his support ofTemple also reflects a deeper connection tothe school—and to its mission. When Clarkapplied to Temple, he was acceptedthrough the school’s discretionaryadmissions process—the Sp.A.C.E.program—partly because of his publicinterest work as a welfare rights advocateTEMPLE ESQ. NOVEMBER 2010 • 7ALUMNI PROFILEThis curriculum has always combined thetraditional doctrinal approach to the lawwith a focus on practical applicationthrough legal skills courses and clinicalprograms. According to Clark, “no lawschool is better than Temple at producingfirst-class lawyers who are pragmatic andprepared to come in the door and do whatlawyers need to do to service their clients.”Given his support of this practicalapproach to legal education, Clark isdelighted that his donation to the lawschool will be used to fund work-studymatching grants for current students withsummer employment at public-interestorganizations. It will also fund post-J.D.fellowships, meaning that students workingat public interest organizations aftergraduation will receive stipends from thelaw school for a period of four to sixmonths. “With this hands-on experienceand opportunity to make contacts withinthe legal community,” says Clark, “Templegraduates will have an edge over theircompetitors in this tight legal market.”Although he is confident that the jobmarket will recover, Clark welcomes thechance to improve the employmentprospects for current graduates during thisdifficult time.He is also thrilled that through his gift,public-interest organizations will benefitfrom the service of Temple Law graduatesand current students. According to Clark,this focus on service is simply consistentwith Temple’s long-standing tradition of“doing well by doing good.” As DeanJoAnne A. Epps says, “Programs like thisone allow Temple to fulfill its dual missionof serving its students and serving thepublic—a mission that is furthered throughthe generosity and commitment ofgraduates like Tony Clark.”—Jodi BenjaminANTHONY CLARK ’79Leading corporate attorney supports Temple’s focus on service.Next >